Birthdays: Paul Whiteman, Freddy Bartholomew, Dirk Bogarde, Gen. Wade Hampton, pianist Rudolph Serkin, Swifty Lazar, Sterling Haydn, Mouseketeer Jimmie Dodd, Marlin Perkins, Diane Weist, Reba McEntire, cartoonist Edward Sorel, Vince Vaughn is 55, Julia Stiles is 44, Lady Gaga (born Stefani Germanetta) is 39
1881- P.T. Barnum formed a partnership with his chief competitor James Bailey to create Barnum & Bailey’s Circus. He proclaimed it the Greatest Show on Earth!
1920- Silent film stars Douglas Fairbanks & Mary Pickford married.
1928- Via radio broadcast, the public heard the voice of Charlie Chaplin for the first time.
1929- Disney short The Opry House was released. The first short where they changed Mickey Mouses’ design to give him white gloves.
1930- The name of the City of Constantinople was officially changed to Istanbul, Turkish for “The City”. Angora was renamed Ankara.
1935- Leni Reifenstahl’s hypnotic movie paean to Nazism- Triumph of the Will, premiered at the Berlin Ufa Palace Theatre.
1941- English writer Virginia Woolf filled her pockets with stones and drowned herself in the River Ouse in Sussex. She was 59. Her body was never found.
1942- Albert Hurter, Swiss designer for Walt Disney's "Snow White' and 'Pinocchio", and called the first inspirational artist in animation, died of rheumatic heart disease. He was 59.
1958- The Killer Slide- US 1, The Pacific Coast Highway has always been at the mercy of wind and weather erosion effecting the unstable cliffs it was carved from. This day while repairing a previous land slide, construction workers were caught in an even bigger hillside collapse- several people were killed.
1966- The hit British TV series The Avengers first appeared on American TV. With Diana Rigg and Patrick McNee. “ Mrs. Peel, we are needed.”
1987- The first Disney Store opened, this one in the Glendale Galleria not too far from the Burbank studio.
1999- Matt Groening’s cartoon series Futurama debuted.
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